Monday, July 11, 2016

A Review of The American Counter Revolution: A Retreat From Liberty, 1783-1800, by Larry E. Tise, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania: Stackpole Books, 1999, 634 pages.

A good historian ought to make it clear where he is coming from
rather than assume an impossible Olympian objectivity. Then, if he has
handled his evidence honestly, he has fulfilled the demands of his
craft—whether or not we agree with the interpretation he has placed upon
his evidence. Ideally, interpretation should come separately from, and
after, presentation of that evidence.

Two historians, for instance, may
agree that the New Deal was not really very radical a program. One of
these may be pleased by this conclusion and the other regret it; both,
however, in their honest description have done their job as historians.
Their opinion about their finding, of course, is another question. (And
as Sir Herbert Butlerfield wisely warned long ago, historians’ opinions
can too easily become self-centered moral judgments, even preferences of
taste masquerading as moral judgments.)

Larry Tise, by these criteria, is a good historian. He tells us up
front (self-indulgently, alas, and at a little more length than
necessary) what he is and where he is coming from: a liberal unhappy
with what he considers the failed promise of the American Revolution. In
the period he has under consideration, he believes that liberty (by
which he means feminism and egalitarianism) was repudiated by its
friends just as it was about to be realized in practice.

Government data shows that police officers tend to make street and
traffic stops of all races at proportional levels. While blacks and
Hispanics do have their vehicles searched disproportionally, they also
get arrested for felonies at a higher rate than others.

Government data shows that police officers tend to make street and
traffic stops of all races at proportional levels. While blacks and
Hispanics do have their vehicles searched disproportionally, they also
get arrested for felonies at a higher rate than others.

The data also shows that black people are more likely than
those of other races to be shot and killed by police, though the vast
majority of fatal police shootings — across racial lines — occur when an
individual is violent toward police or has a weapon and refuses to put
it down.

Police Interactions With The Public

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has figures available on
public interaction with police. The latest BJS figures are from 2011,
and since they comprise the latest, most extensive data set available,
it is the one being used for the purpose of this article.

Following the shooting of police officers in Dallas, Texas last week, Palm Beach County Officer Jay Stalien took to Facebook to blast the Black Lives Matter movement. This piece is longer than normal, but the ideas of Officer Salien should not be ignored by our society.

Stalien, who is also a former police officer with the Baltimore
Police Department, wrote the following, which he said was "something
that is still hard for me to understand to this day" and that "may be a
shock to some coming from an African American." However, he said that
the very fact that it may be shocking to some is "evidence of the sad
state of affairs that we are in as Humans."

I used to be so torn inside growing up. Here I am, a
young African-American born and raised in Brooklyn, NY wanting to be a
cop. I watched and lived through the crime that took place in the hood.
My own black people killing others over nothing. Crack heads and heroin
addicts lined the lobby of my building as I shuffled around them to make
my way to our 1 bedroom apartment with 6 of us living inside. I used to
be woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of gun fire, only
to look outside and see that it was 2 African Americans shooting at each
other.

It never sat right with me. I wanted to help my community and
stop watching the blood of African Americans spilled on the street at
the hands of a fellow black man. I became a cop because black lives in
my community, along with ALL lives, mattered to me, and wanted to help
stop the bloodshed.

A judge has given Hillary Clinton until
Tuesday to reveal why she shouldn’t be forced to testify in a federal
case about Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s double-dipping employment at the
State Department.

As WND reported Friday,
Washington watchdog Judicial Watch asked a federal judge for permission
to put Clinton under oath and ask her questions about her emails – even
though the FBI investigated and said that while Clinton was “extremely
careless” in her handling of secret information, she should not be
charged formally for her actions.

The motion for permission to depose Clinton and two others was
submitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
Friday. The Freedom of Information Act lawsuit is investigating aide
Huma Abedin’s job at the State Department.

The organization earlier deposed seven former and current State Department officials and aides of Clinton.

“As the primary driving force behind and principal user of the
ClintonEmail.com system, however, Secretary Clinton’s testimony is
crucial to understanding how and why the system was created and
operated,” the brief states, noting that Clinton is an “indispensable
witness.”

Steve Loomis: Certainly when the president of the
United States gets on TV and uses very divisive language, when the
governor of Minnesota gets on TV and uses very divisive language that
just serves to incite a very small group of people that have an agenda…
And when you’re hearing from legitimate politicians, the President of
the United States down to a local prosecutor, speaking in this very
divisive way before one day of investigation is completed, in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana or up in Minnesota, that’s very hurtful. And those
gentlemen are going to have a lot to answer for. That’s inciteful and they have blood on their hands. They have blood that they’re not going to be able to wash off.

Yet another Democrat has fallen because of corruption. This seems to be becoming an almost daily occurrence…

Democrat Congresswoman Corrine Brown (D-FL) has FINALLY been indicted on corruption charges.
It’s a case that has been building for some time now and has been
threatening to end the infamous Democrat’s career…

Federal law enforcement seem confident they can make the charges stick.

Assistant Attorney General Caldwell: “Congresswoman Brown and her
chief of staff are alleged to have used the Congresswoman’s official
position to solicit over $800,000 in donations to a supposed charitable
organization, only to use that organization as a personal slush fund.”

Last week, the New York Post revealed that Retired Lt. Gen. Michael
Flynn was being considered by Donald Trump for a possible spot on the
2016 ticket. Flynn, a registered Democrat, was the former head of the
Defense Intelligence Agency under President Obama. At first glance, this
would make him an odd choice for Trump’s VP, but Flynn has been one of
this administration’s harshest critics.

And when asked about joining the
Trump campaign by the NY Post, he appeared open to the idea.

“All I would say is that I have been honored to serve my country for
the past three decades and look forward to serving in other ways now
that I am retired from the U.S. Army,” Flynn said. “I’ve been a soldier
too long to refuse to entertain any request from a potential commander
in chief.”

Flynn was relieved of his position in 2014. In an op-ed last week, he
said that his determined pursuit of radical Islamic terrorists led to
his dismissal.

“I asked the DNI (Gen. James Clapper) if my leadership of the agency
was in question and he said it was not,” Flynn wrote. “Had it been, he
said, they would have relieved me on the spot.

“I knew then that it had more to do with the stand I took on radical
Islamism and the expansion of al Qaeda and its associated movements,”
Flynn continued.

Several years ago I happened upon a rifle that blew me away. It was at
Media Day at the Range, which is the day before our annual SHOT Show in
Las Vegas, and I have to say, it takes a lot to blow me away. That rifle
was the Noreen Arms BN36 Long Range Assassin, which you will recognize
as an AR-15 pattern, in .30-06. I have always been a huge fan of that
cartridge, and I always wondered if the rifle ran as well as my M1
Garands. This week I finally got a chance to put the Noreen to the test,
ad I love it!

Tell that to all those who have won the MOH on down who were from 17 to 29.

There's a common thread that runs through all of these 'Po little Black Boy' being shot by Cops.

Questions none of the Black 'Leaders' ask . . .

Where would Alton Sterling be if he had just complied? If he had not tried to fight two cops, but put his hands the hood of the car and 'spread 'em? Alton was a known bad actor, a felon, a child rapist, and known to be packing. He was also over 6' tall and around 310, his size and history - he was a Bloods gangster - made him a threat.In Alton's case he'd already made a series of bad decisions that brought him to the attention of the police. He was already facing five Court appearances on different charges. He was no Saintly dude.

Where would Philandro be, if he'd just used some judgement? He was armed, the officer knew it,
and ol' Philly was a suspect in an armed robbery caught on video. He was a Crips gangster and
a known bad actor. What if he just put his hands on the dash, and told the officer his wallet was in
his back pocket? It is reported that his gun was actually in his lap, hidden by the tee shirt . . .Philandro had a rap sheet and associations; he made a poor choice in choosing to move as he did.
But it was his choices, all of them, that got him shot.

Freddy Gray was arrested for some offense or other, I don't recall offhand. He had a violent reputation and was a known bad actor. Somehow he broke his neck inside a Paddy Wagon. No Cops were in there with him. Another prisoner was and he reported Freddy went apeshit and head butted the walls and such. Probably to give an appearance of being beat up by the Police - my speculation - and went a tad too far. Bad choices, Freddy, too bad.

Michael Brown was another 'known subject' a petty crook and wannabe gansta. Video shows him roughing up the store clerk immediately prior to the confrontation with the police. He was another big guy, young and strong, and belligerent. He was not afraid to use force, as he just had moments before. Witnesses, many f them Black neighbors, reported he went after the Cop, and tried to leave the scene, then turned and charged the officer, who was no physical match for a Football Lineman. Bad idea, Mike, bad idea. Was he strung out on 'Spice'? I suspect something like that. Spice is bad, bad, bad stuff.

Trayvon was another young punk, known to police. Suspected of many thefts, burglaries, and known
as a drug dealer. He assaulted Zimmerman and inflicted serious head injuries before being shot.
Why would he do that? Zimmerman had no arrest authority, he was keeping an eye on a suspected
thief and burglar, AS HE WAS COMMISSIONED TO DO as the neighborhood watch captain.
Trayvon made a wrong guess. He thought he could take the older, chubby Latino easily, and he was
right, until old .40S&W intervened.

So how is any of these guys' bad choices, my fault? Hillary says "Whites have to change their ways"
Really? You wouldn't s*** me would you? How is what happened in Baton Rouge any Dallas Cop's
fault? What mental process - assuming there is one - do these people use to arrive at these idiotic
positions?"

A House panel grilled FBI Director
James Comey on his decision not to recommend criminal charges against
Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server while secretary of
state, but the congressmen never truly got to the bottom of Clinton’s
email scandal, according to the author of an explosive new book on the
Clintons.

New York Times bestselling author Jerome Corsi says the key question
is this: Why did Secretary Clinton feel it was necessary to have her own
private email server, off-line from the State Department’s secure email
server?

“The crime partnership of Bill and Hillary Clinton had the perfect
set-up with Bill heading the Clinton Foundation and Hillary appointed
secretary of state,” said Corsi, a WND senior staff writer.
“The
opportunity for the Clintons to enrich themselves was never greater with
Bill positioned to solicit donations from those desiring favorable
State Department policy decisions from Hillary.”

But this scam would not work if Hillary’s State Department emails
were available to be archived on the State Department system, thus
subject to FOIA requests. According to Corsi, the scam required emails
passing classified information to top officials in the Clinton
Foundation as well as

Independent
studies have shown that our Law Enforcement in 2015 came into contact
with and faced down over 16,000,000 [million] violent criminals with
1001 Use of Force Fatalities....An increase of 552 Use of Force
fatalities since the latest FBI and Department of Justice reports from
2012, but this may also account for the over 1,000,000 increase in
criminal contacts with Law Enforcement since 2012......

According to
the Guardian’s tally, of the approximately 1001 people killed by police
in 2015 in America, 502 were white, 250 were black, 163 were
Hispanic/Latino, 18 were Asian/Pacific Islander, 13 were American
Indian, and 54 were other/unknown.

Here, Whites were Twice the number of Use of Force Fatalities than Blacks......

Compare
those 16 million criminal contacts to the 1001 Use of Force Fatalities
and those fatalities barely registers at 0.00625625%.........Making
these Law Enforcement Use of Force Fatalities extremely rare compared to
the violent Criminal Contacts they face annually.........

Note:
These 2015 Independent studies are not the Department of Justice nor an
FBI figures...

It takes 13-18 months at the end of each yearly cycle to
compile data....."

Over the weekend, Black Lives Matter protestors shut down
I-94 in St. Paul for about five hours to protest the death of Philando
Castile, who was shot by a police officer. During the protest, 27 cops
were injured after people threw molotov cocktails, fireworks, and rocks
at the officers. One officer suffered a spinal fracture after a concrete
block landed on his head.

This weekend Michael Strickland,
a former contributor at The Gateway Pundit and Progressives Today, was
jailed in Portland, Oregon after he pulled a gun on a gang of thugs who
were going to kick his a$$ at a black lives matter protest.

Last year Michael was jumped by an anti-gun activist who broke his arm in three places at an anti-Second Amendment event.

This weekend Michael was confronted by a gang of men and he pulled out his gun. The story made headlines
and Michael was thrown in jail. Michael has a concealed carry permit in
Oregon and can legally carry a weapon. He was being threatened and he
pulled the gun on his would-be assailants.

Apparently, the state of Oregon issues concealed carry permits in
Portland but you’re not allowed to use your gun if you are being
threatened with an a$$beating.

In the wake of protests in Ferguson,
Missouri, where authorities were criticized for what some called
heavy-handed tactics against demonstrators, many departments took a more
restrained approach.

Now, after the shooting deaths of five officers at a
Dallas protest decrying last week's police killings of two more black
men, some experts are suggesting it's possible the pendulum could swing
from hugs back to flash-bang grenades and mass arrests.

A former Affton High School football standout forced his way into a
South County home and was shot and killed by an off-duty officer inside
after a Facebook dispute over Black Lives Matter apparently boiled over
late Saturday afternoon.

That's what can be pieced together from
the accounts of police and an uncle of Tyler Gebhard, who said the young
man had been struggling with mental health issues.

"He walked over there and into a gunfight," Gebhard's uncle,
Patrick Brogan said, drawing on accounts offered by friends of his
nephew. "When he got there, he was met with a gun and the guy killed
him."

Authorities said Gebhard, 20, and the officer were
acquainted, and Gebhard made Facebook threats to the officer's family
and “uninvolved members of the community” in advance of the Saturday
encounter with the unidentified officer.

This may be done by enlarging and extending the powers conferred by a
liberal construction, based upon the supposed reason and spirit of its
provisions, so as to meet emergencies not anticipated and specifically
provided for; by using the powers granted in such a manner as to
accomplish objects incidentally, which were not embraced in the
Constitution, and could not, therefore, be accomplished by direct
action, and by not understanding the true meaning of its provisions, as
they were designed to be understood by those who framed and adopted it,
and thereby assuming powers never intended to have been granted.

The government of the United States has grown to gigantic proportions, reaching out in all directions.

Yesterday as I was leaving the pier about eight as I usually do each evening after walking on the beach, pier and then spending time with fellow degenerates under the pier having a few beers, I was stopped by a beautiful and friendly cop maybe 25 years old. Since my CCW permit expires every 10 years, I had sent in the renewal two months early, but still hadn't received it, so I was open carrying. Once stopped, I put both hands out the window and informed the lady that my open carry was on the passenger's seat, she glanced and said thank you for telling me. To make a long story short, she said she would put my weapon in her waistband until we were finished and then place it back in the same location after all was over. Afterwards, she stated the quoted subject words. This is the second time that a similar occurrence has happened to me and a lesson to those who might be killed in similar stops, THINK!

Donald Trump is a racist, bigot, sexist, xenophobe, anti-Semitic and
Islamophobe -- did I miss anything? The left and the media launch these
hideous kinds of attacks at Trump everyday; yet, nothing could be
further from the truth about the real estate mogul. As an entertainment
journalist, I’ve had the opportunity to cover Trump for over a decade,
and in all my years covering him I’ve never heard anything negative
about the man until he announced he was running for president.

Keep in
mind, I got paid a lot of money to dig up dirt on celebrities like Trump
for a living so a scandalous story on the famous billionaire could’ve
potentially sold a lot of magazines and would’ve been a “yuge” feather
in my cap. Instead, I found that he doesn’t drink alcohol or do drugs,
he’s a hardworking businessman and totally devoted to his beloved wife
and children. On top of that, he’s one of the most generous celebrities
in the world with a heart filled with more gold than his $100 million
New York penthouse.

Churchill wrote in 1931 that JEB Stuart was the key to victory in early July, 1863 at Gettysburg. Had Stuart crashed into the rear of the enemy army at the time of Pettigrew’s Charge, (This was essentially Lee's plan, but was stymied) a full rout would have ensued and the South gaining its independence. Churchill imagined a Southern victory at Gettysburg as the beginning of a great alliance of English-speaking countries that would spread wealth and prosperity in the world. He wrote derisively about what might have followed a Northern victory: “Let us only think what would have happened supposing the liberation of slaves had been followed by some idiotic assertion of racial equality, and even attempts to graft white institutions upon the simple, docile, gifted African race belonging to a much earlier chapter of human history.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide

The Confederacy and Churchill’s English Speaking Association

“In 1932, with reparations and war debts frozen and the world in the depths of the Depression, the writer J.C. Squire published an entertaining (though now largely forgotten) collection of what he called “lapses into imaginary history.” Three of his eleven contributors chose to rewrite history in such a way as to “avoid” the First World War.

Andres Maurois did it by imagining away the French Revolution. As his omniscient “Archangel” explains, the imaginary world after a century and a half of Bourbon rule in France “is divided a bit differently. The United States did not break away from England, but so vast have they grown that they now dominate the British Empire . . . The Imperial Parliament sits in Kansas City . . . the capital of . . . the United States of Europe . . . in Vienna.” There has been no “war of 1914 – 1918.”

Winston Churchill entertained a similar fantasy by assuming a Confederate victory at Gettysburg and the subsequent emergence in 1905 of an “English Speaking Association” of Britain, the Confederacy and the Northern United States:

“Once the perils of 1914 had been successfully averted and the disarmament of Europe had been brought into harmony with that already effected by the [English Speaking Association], the idea of “An United States of Europe” was bound to occur continually. The glittering spectacle of the great English-speaking combination, its assured safety, its boundless power, the rapidity with which wealth was created and widely distributed within its bounds, the sense of buoyancy and hope which seemed to pervade entire populations; all this pointed to European eyes a moral which none but the dullest could ignore.”

Remembrance

Execution of Colonel Ho Ngoc CanLast words: "If I won the war, I would not condemn you as you have condemned me.I would not humiliate you as you have humiliated me.I would not ask you questions that you asked me.I fought for the freedom of my people.I have merit and I am not guilty.No one can convict me.History will criticize you as my Communist enemy.You want to kill me, then kill me.Do not blindfold me.Down with the Communists.Long live the Republic of Viet Nam !"

Colonel CraigMandeville:

“They wanted the people to see that he was dead,” said Craig Mandeville, an American adviser to the South Vietnamese army who fought side by side with Can. “He was believed to be some sort of invincible guy. The North Vietnamese thought that, too, and I even thought that when I fought with him.”

“He said, ‘OK, the country’s fallen, but by God we’re still South Vietnamese and we’re free,’ ” Mandeville recalled. “So he went down to Chuong Tien province and rounded up all these soldiers down there to form a Free Vietnam.”

Col. Can didn’t live long after that, but the legacy of his struggle lives on.

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.